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Italo Calvino Quotes

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
Italo Calvino

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Italo Calvino

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
Italo Calvino

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Italo Calvino

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
Italo Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino

Type:
Journalist
Date of Birth:
1923-10-15
Year of Death:
1985
Nationality:
Italian